By Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker

This morning, our editor, Jennifer, pointed out a phantom hand in an upcoming daily strip. Dustin is produced digitally, and sometimes it’s just easier to cut and copy a previous panel’s art and slide it over to the next, instead of re-drawing most of it.

(Caricature by Tom Richmond and photo courtesy of the National Cartoonists Society)

I haven’t posted anything new in a while here on the Dustin blog for our “Saturday Morning Muse” feature.

Plus, it isn’t even Saturday.

But the cartooning world lost a mega titan over the weekend — Mort Walker, creator of “Beetle Bailey” and “Hi and Lois” died at the age of 94. He was the last of what some would call the greatest class of 20th Century cartoonists which included stars like Charles Schulz, Bil Keane, Hank Ketchum, Johnny Hart, Brandt Parker, and more.